this is why time travel stories always make my head hurt...

[ratcreature]

I've been thinking about the ST:AOS timeline. Presumably it is like the TOS reality until the Kelvin is destroyed by Nero. But when I thought about that, how do the timetravel events work that have various future crews (from the regular timeline) interact with the past pre-split? Like how did the events of Star Trek: First Contact happen in the AOS reality? I mean, which version of the future characters have now ended up in the past? Or am I approaching this wrong? This makes my head hurt.

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[soshoni.livejournal.com]

Brilliant, thanks for the heads up on the notifications deal.

Sorry I couldn't help make it make sense! Then again, if some random person with MS Paint and internet access could make time travel make sense, we'd probably be living in a much more interesting world.

Hope I didn't confuse you too much more with the extra past bit. My whole deal with the extra past not existing before the time travel, it very well might exist before the time travel, but it's not interacted with until the second time travel, so it's existence can't be 'proved' one way or another.

Anyways, you might see me pop up around your journal every once in a while in the future if you don't mind. And I hope your rat gets better and that it's not anything serious!

[ratcreature]

I don't think anything could have made me more confused than before. The visualizations certainly help, the other idea with an image to explain things I've seen is that timetravel wouldn't create forks nor entirely different realities, but changes sort of "ripple" in all time directions, altering everything, or if the timetravel manages to be of the internally consistent kind the ripples would be there but the actions cancel each other out like in an interference pattern or something like that, so that the future and past away from the incidents wasn't changed.

You are very welcome to check my journal. And thanks for the well wishes for my rat. I'm just about to go drop him off with the vet for the operation, so I hope he'll get through that okay.